Notifications

The current Ebola outbreak is in an area of eastern DRC that, along with large areas of sub-Saharan Africa, is a natural home to the virus.

Since initial reports of Ebola in 1976, the virus has caused 44 more outbreaks, killing more than 13,000 people according to CDC. The current outbreak, the third largest Ebola epidemic in the history of Africa, is in an area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that, along with large areas of sub-Saharan Africa, is a natural home to the Ebola virus.